More New Toys

I'm temporarily held up in the bedrooms until we take delivery of plasterboards, insulation, etc which we've been promised for next week (sometime!).

So, in the meantime I've started to come to grips with the stairs which I'll be making. The wood for the sides of the stairs was delivered with the bedroom flooring, but it is only now that we've had a good look at it! And we've come to the decision that it is too thick. It doesn't look in proportion with the stair treads. This, of course, is not an easy thing to change. One of the reasons for getting the wood from the woodyard was because they had the facilities to plane it. However, nothing's impossible, I have found...(cue for a song!) and we located a bench planer at a national DIY store at Perigueux, 2 hours away.

So, I've now set up my workshop, having fixed the planer to my workmate (which necessitated buying another!!!) and we're now happy that we'll be able to modify the wood to the dimensions we want.

Of course, this means that the materials for the bedrooms will now arrive in the next couple of days.

We had some lovely news from England about Aunty Pauline. She's been having tablets for breast cancer but, at her latest check-up, the lumps in her breast have gone! She has other associated problems but we're all delighted to think that her treatment has seen off the breast cancer. Her irises (her's because she gave them to us and the're called 'Pauline') are in full bloom in the garden...very appropriate!